US Patent Issued to UNIVERSAL ACHEMETAL TITANIUM on Oct. 7 for "System and method for extraction and refining of titanium" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,438, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UNIVERSAL ACHEMETAL TITANIUM LLC (Cherry Hill, N.J.).

"System and method for extraction and refining of titanium" was invented by James R. Cox (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Chanaka L. De Alwis (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Benjamin A. Kohler (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Michael G. Lewis (Cherry Hill, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to extract and refine metal products from metal-bearing ores, including a method to extract and refine titanium products. Titanium products can be extracted from titanium-bearing ores with TiO2 and impurity levels unsuitable for conventional methods."

The patent was filed on Fe...